Intent, beside the form it has in language, where it makes the soul of grammar, has many other modes of expression, in mathematical and logical reasoning, in action, and in those contemplated and suspended acts which we call estimation, policy, or morals.

The biggest number that doesn't work in my estimation is that $47 million in annual loss to the commonwealth's treasury under the current proposal, and this is despite assurances we have had for over a year that ABC privatization would be revenue-neutral, '' Brink said.